smartmet-press aka. qdpress

Part of SmartMet Server. See the SmartMet Server documentation for an overview of the ecosystem.

qdpress is the name of the binary.

smartmet-press is the name of the RPM-package and this repository

The program reads querydata and a definiton file as input, and makes PostScript or ASCII text files as output.

How a product definition file for qdpress should look like see: Syntax for qdpress definition

What each part of the definition means see: Qdpress Reference Manual

Development (FMI internal)

• Clone repo at dev.dev
• Create a new branch: git checkout -b feature/<a-new-thing>
• Make qdpress great again
• Build a local binary file: make
• Test that things still work with local qdpress-binary
• Update the .spec-file smartmet-press.spec
• Merge branch back to master: git checkout master; git merge --no-ff feature/<a-new-thing>
• Create Linux package files: make rpm
• Install to dev.dev
• ...
• Wait until monday
• ...
• Copy packages to appropriate /download/... subdirectory
• Update repository information smartrepoupdate
• Install new version to production machines

Something like that.